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I moved to Southern California, the others moved to: Tahoe(Nevada side), Southern California, Cincinnati Ohio, South of the bay area. Bend OR, Scottsdale Arizon

I moved to Southern California, the others moved to: Tahoe(Nevada side), Southern California, Cincinnati Ohio, South of the bay area. Bend OR, Scottsdale Arizona, Springdale South Carolina

r00fus 6y ago
Isn't SoCal equally expensive?
- subsubzero 6y ago
  no, not by a long shot. It's expensive comparative to local socal jobs but not to tech salaries(both me and my wife work in bay area tech companies). For comparison I want to live in 3/3 bdrm house in a good school district that does not need a total overhaul. In the Bay Area, good school district cities (Palo Alto, Cupertino, Menlo Park, Los Altos, etc) all have houses priced close to $2M+ starting for a 3 bdrm house. In socal where I live now places are 800k - 1.1M and the schools are 9's & 10's. The mortgage we now have is 40% cheaper than the bay area house we had, and in the bay area all of our schools were 3's and 5's.
  - r00fus 6y ago
    Wow, do you mind sharing where you were moving from? Only 6-10 schools around me.
  - outworlder 6y ago
    > and in the bay area all of our schools were 3's and 5's. That sounds more like the South Bay. Try East.
    - nostrademons 6y ago
      Most of the South Bay is 8-10 for schools - it has literally some of the best schools in the country. Even in East Palo Alto you're looking at a 7 for HS. To get consistent 3-5s on the Western side of the Bay, you're probably in SF.
      - nradov 6y ago
        That's not true. There are many lower rated schools in Sunnyvale and San Jose. But it's inconsistent; there are pockets of high and low ratings even within single school districts.
- mikestew 6y ago
  I used to think so, until I saw the house recently sold by someone who worked on the Alien movies (David Giler?). $2 million for a really nice house in the Hollywood Hills, which looked to be actually designed, not just some standard floor plan from Tolt Brothers. In the Redmond, WA area, $2 million might get you something that isn't a 4700 sq. ft. box with windows. Hell, San Diego is looking downright affordable these days. And that's from a Seattle perspective. I can imagine a Bay Area resident with some equity (I have a big imagination) would do well moving just about anywhere else, including SoCal.

I moved to Southern California, the others moved to: Tahoe(Nevada side), Southern California, Cincinnati Ohio, South of the bay area. Bend OR, Scottsdale Arizona, Springdale South Carolina

r00fus 6y ago

Isn't SoCal equally expensive?

subsubzero 6y ago
no, not by a long shot. It's expensive comparative to local socal jobs but not to tech salaries(both me and my wife work in bay area tech companies). For comparison I want to live in 3/3 bdrm house in a good school district that does not need a total overhaul. In the Bay Area, good school district cities (Palo Alto, Cupertino, Menlo Park, Los Altos, etc) all have houses priced close to $2M+ starting for a 3 bdrm house. In socal where I live now places are 800k - 1.1M and the schools are 9's & 10's. The mortgage we now have is 40% cheaper than the bay area house we had, and in the bay area all of our schools were 3's and 5's.
- r00fus 6y ago
  Wow, do you mind sharing where you were moving from? Only 6-10 schools around me.
- outworlder 6y ago
  > and in the bay area all of our schools were 3's and 5's. That sounds more like the South Bay. Try East.
  - nostrademons 6y ago
    Most of the South Bay is 8-10 for schools - it has literally some of the best schools in the country. Even in East Palo Alto you're looking at a 7 for HS. To get consistent 3-5s on the Western side of the Bay, you're probably in SF.
    - nradov 6y ago
      That's not true. There are many lower rated schools in Sunnyvale and San Jose. But it's inconsistent; there are pockets of high and low ratings even within single school districts.
mikestew 6y ago
I used to think so, until I saw the house recently sold by someone who worked on the Alien movies (David Giler?). $2 million for a really nice house in the Hollywood Hills, which looked to be actually designed, not just some standard floor plan from Tolt Brothers. In the Redmond, WA area, $2 million might get you something that isn't a 4700 sq. ft. box with windows. Hell, San Diego is looking downright affordable these days. And that's from a Seattle perspective. I can imagine a Bay Area resident with some equity (I have a big imagination) would do well moving just about anywhere else, including SoCal.